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Daddy Long Legs Novel

October 21, 2011 by CPH Education Department in Daddy Long Legs

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One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long- Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters, follows the progress of Judy’s former orphanage now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life. Full of irrepressible female characters that both recall Alcott’s Jo March and anticipate the popular heroines of contemporary literature, Webster’s novels are witty, heartfelt, and delightfully modern.

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Modern Day Epistolary Writing

October 06, 2011 by CPH Education Department in Daddy Long Legs

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Daddy Long Legs is adapted from the epistolary novel of the same title written by Jean Webster in 1912.  Written almost a century ago, when letter writing was the main form of self-expression and communication, Daddy Long Legs is a story of an orphaned girl who receives an education with help from a mysterious benefactor.



The orphaned girl, Judy, communicates the intricacies of her life beautifully to her benefactor, Daddy, through her letters and we come to know and admire her as she chronicles her every day life with detail and zest. However, with the advent of cell phones, text messaging and email, is letter writing is becoming a thing of the past? What if Daddy Long Legs was written in 2012 and,... more

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